Posted September 27, 2020
Okay, so I finished all of the levels in Superhot: Mind Control Delete, but the damn game won't end! It keeps saying to press [E], which you can do only about once every 1.5 seconds, with that unbearably annoying "SUPER" and "HOT" vocal and flashing text alternating every damn time, but there's no end. I hit [E] over 200 times and it just kept repeating it. I then kept hitting [ESCAPE] and it started another sequence that didn't end -- I hit [ESCAPE] over 600 times, and the damn thing still won't end! I had to [ALT-F4] just to quit the stupid game. When I started the game again, it started at the beginning of the endless press [E] loop.
At this point, I seriously question if it is even possible to reach the true "end" of the game, which I've heard is you having to sit at a screen for 2.5 hours, letting the game run, wasting your electricity (thus wasting your money).
If you reach this "end" point (where you have to hit [E] endlessly) and you don't have a headache, trust me, you will after a few minutes of the constant "SUPER" "HOT" vocals and flashing text..
According to a EuroGamer article about the game forcing you to wait 2.5 hours at the end, the developers said "Mind Control Delete is about greed and over-attachment". The original wait time was 8 hours, and on the subject of reducing it from 8 hours to 2.5 hours, the developers said "After all, we don't want to punish the players, we want players to feel both the significance of what they themselves achieved during the ending, and to have a moment to be part of this experience more as performing along than just playing".
I don't feel an achievement. Quite the contrary, in fact. I have a splitting headache now and I couldn't even reach the end because I have no idea how to do so. Pressing [E] and [ESCAPE] over 800 times is my limit. This is not clever and it is not artistic. It is entirely about the developers being like Microsoft and other software companies, telling us what we can and cannot do with our computers.
I was hoping that MCD would be the game that Superhot should have been. Sadly, my hopes were once again shattered. I will not be fooled a third time. These developers do not deserve any more of my time or money.
At this point, I seriously question if it is even possible to reach the true "end" of the game, which I've heard is you having to sit at a screen for 2.5 hours, letting the game run, wasting your electricity (thus wasting your money).
If you reach this "end" point (where you have to hit [E] endlessly) and you don't have a headache, trust me, you will after a few minutes of the constant "SUPER" "HOT" vocals and flashing text..
According to a EuroGamer article about the game forcing you to wait 2.5 hours at the end, the developers said "Mind Control Delete is about greed and over-attachment". The original wait time was 8 hours, and on the subject of reducing it from 8 hours to 2.5 hours, the developers said "After all, we don't want to punish the players, we want players to feel both the significance of what they themselves achieved during the ending, and to have a moment to be part of this experience more as performing along than just playing".
I don't feel an achievement. Quite the contrary, in fact. I have a splitting headache now and I couldn't even reach the end because I have no idea how to do so. Pressing [E] and [ESCAPE] over 800 times is my limit. This is not clever and it is not artistic. It is entirely about the developers being like Microsoft and other software companies, telling us what we can and cannot do with our computers.
I was hoping that MCD would be the game that Superhot should have been. Sadly, my hopes were once again shattered. I will not be fooled a third time. These developers do not deserve any more of my time or money.